Enterprise Architecture

The Four EA Archetypes: A Story Of How EA Finds Its True Place

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In nearly every EA leadership conversation I’ve had this year, the same tension surfaces: the practice is doing real work, but stakeholders can’t describe what it delivers. Expectations have surged, roles have expanded, and transformation p…

A Scrapbook of Past Projects

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Enterprise Architecture has a reputation problem. Not because it lacks rigor or structure — quite the opposite. But because too often, architecture feels like something that exists next to the organization rather than within it. Diagrams live in tools, standards sit in documents, and architectural knowledge slowly fragments across folders, platforms, and people’s heads. It’s kind of like an intangible scrapbook of past projects.
The Architecture Repository, as described in the TOGAF® Standard, is an attempt to fix that. Not by introducing yet another tool or database, but by introducing a way of thinking. A way of treating architecture as a coherent, evolving body of knowledge — one that can be reused, governed, and continuously refined.

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When Every Enterprise Architecture Tool Looks The Same…

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The demos all blurred together. Another week, another vendor pitch. Slide after slide promised a “single source of truth,” “360degree visibility,” and “seamless collaboration across the enterprise.” The names changed. The interfaces changed. But to the…

When The Cloud Comes to Town: How Energy, Communities, and Accountability Need A Re-think

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The rapid expansion of AI-driven data centers transforms what once seemed like invisible, back-end digital infrastructure into a highly visible, very localized challenge. According to Forrester’s US Tech Market Forecast, 2025 To 2030, AI could add 1.3 …